What in MacPorts decides that files are 'broken'?

[Chris Jones]

> On 4 May 2021, at 7:35 am, Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:
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>> Op 4 mei 2021 om 03:39 heeft Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> het volgende geschreven:
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>>>> On May 3, 2021, at 6:33 PM, Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:
>>> I maintain the openjdk* ports. These ports install prebuilt x86_64 binaries from AdoptOpenJDK. A MacPorts user with an M1 created https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62802 to report that installing the openjdk11 port on his machine makes rev-upgrade reports a couple of files in this port as ‘broken’. I’ve asked the reporter to manually download the prebuilt x86_64 tarball, and that seems to work fine on his M1 machine.
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>>> I am not sure what MacPorts runs that decides these files are broken. Can anyone tell me more about this?
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>> That's rev-upgrade, from the manpage (man 1 port-rev-upgrade):
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>>      port rev-upgrade will check all binaries (i.e., executables and
>>      libraries) installed by MacPorts for consistency. If any linking
>>      problems such as missing or incompatible libraries are found,
>>      rev-upgrade will rebuild broken ports in an attempt to fix the
>>      problems.
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>>      By default, rev-upgrade is run automatically after each installation or
>>      upgrade, unless you pass the --no-rev-upgrade option or disable this
>>      beahvior in macports.conf(5) using the revupgrade_autorun switch.
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> Ah, thanks!
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> What can I do to the Portfile to fix this for M1 users? I don’t get these errors on my Intel Mac. Although the prebuilt binary is for x86_64 it runs on arm64 as well, as tested by the issue reporter.
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> The reporter now gets stuck in a rev-upgrade loop. Is there a way to configure a port to skip the broken file check? Or will I need to change the Portfile to remove the files that got reported as broken from the extracted prebuilt archive when running on arm64?

Do you know exactly what is being flagged ? Can you ask the use to run rev-upgrade in debug mode to get more info ? Is there a trac ticket for this ?

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> Nils.